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There is a “cognitive dissonance” between ingrained “habits of homophobia” in Australian culture , on the one hand, and a recognition that “overt bigotry is Image via CrunchBase  no longer acceptable in the public square,” on the other. Some seek to resolve this dissonance by holding fast to their homophobic prejudices, by drawing similarities between the re-definition of marriage and the kind of human engineering attempted by totalitarian states . Others see this simply as virulent homophobic rhetoric gone mad. Image via Wikipedia Yet crying “homophobia” is a cheap calumny, a crypto-totalitarian bully’s smear that impresses no serious person. So, what was marriage like under totalitarianism? Under Polish Communism, Catholic couples — which is to say, just about everyone — got “married” twice. Because marriages in the Catholic Church were not recognized by the Communist state , believers had two “weddings.” The first was a civil procedure, carried out in dingy bureaucratic...

Image via Wikipedia There is a “cognitive dissonance” between ingrained “habits of homophobia” in Australian culture , on the one hand, and a recognition that “overt bigotry is no longer acceptable in the public square,” on the other. Some seek to resolve this dissonance by holding fast to their homophobic prejudices, by drawing similarities between the re-definition of marriage and the kind of human engineering attempted by totalitarian states . Others see this as virulent homophobic rhetoric. Yet crying “homophobia” is a cheap calumny, a crypto-totalitarian bully’s smear that impresses no serious person. What was marriage like under totalitarianism? Under Polish Communism, Catholic couples — which is to say, just about everyone — got “married” twice. Because marriages in the Catholic Church were not recognized by the Communist state , believers had two “weddings.” The first was a civil procedure, carried out in a dingy bureaucratic office with a state (Communist-party) apparat...